By the way, movies are like sporting events in that youre as good as the movie youre in. You can sit in a room for 20 years and go do a movie and you can just kill in it and you move to the head of the line again. By the same token, you can do five movies a year and if theyre dreck, its nothing. – Albert Brooks
If we had 3 million exhibitionists and only one voyeur, nobody could make any money. – Albert Brooks
Listen, there are some movies that are set in stone and the writer or the director does not want to change, but Ive never worked on a movie, including my own, that didnt take advantage of a rehearsal process. – Albert Brooks
Ive always been in the middle of making my own movies, so taking acting jobs that take me away from that has been impossible. – Albert Brooks
Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies. – Garrett Hardin